James Wolcott Quotes
There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
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Ive had quite a few complaints lately from people who like it when I complain about things. They say I havent complained about anything lately. So tonight, for you complaint fans, I have a complaint.
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There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
